Central Pacific may refer to:
- Central Pacific Railroad, the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States
- Central Pacific Area, a subdivision of the Pacific Ocean Areas, an Allied military command in World War II
- Central Pacific languages, a branch of the Oceanic languages
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“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.”
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